Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)
New Books in Communications
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Is There a Future Direction for the History of Cybernetics?
I think the question of indigenous knowledge, indigenous culture is really important. I've tried to kind of reorient histories of computing histories of cybernetics away from this conflict,. for example, between the United States and the Axis in Europe. So that we start taking it, you know, taking note of what's happening in say Bali or even Brazil. Nonetheless, the story I tell and the history I tell is almost entirely told by white European, white Western anthropologist, scientist and so on. But there's probably ways where if one digs into the history of cybernetic, they're probably our versions of this story.
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